Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has seen better days. It’s suffering from advanced bleaching as a result of climate change and rising ocean temperatures, and scientists … ...

The past few decades haven’t been kind to Australia’s majestic Great Barrier Reef. Since 1985, half the reef’s coral has been ravaged by tropical storms, invasive crown-of-thorns starfish ...

While on a snorkel tour on the Great Barrier Reef, marine biologist Jorja Gilmore spotted something peculiar. In the water in front of her danced a paper-thin, elongated silvery fish.

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55128-7 Cite This Page : ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is all about superlatives. It is the world’s largest coral reef, extending some 1,400 miles off the east coast of Australia and covering some 133,000 square miles.

By spanning over 135,000 square miles, the Great Barrier Reef eclipses the sizes of over 100 countries.Ranked among the world’s nations, the reef system would place 63rd, just between Germany ...